[R] Help installing R commander in Fedora 13...

[Carlo Tambuatco]

Yes.

I've got the R-core, and R-devel packages both installed and updated.
Also have tcl and tcl-devel installed and updated and also
fontconfig-devel.

For some reason, though the reason that Rcmdr fails to compile and be
stored in the library is because its dependencies fail to compile and
be loaded:

1: In doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler) :
 unable to load shared library '/usr/lib/R/modules//R_X11.so':
 /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Select_Size
2: In install.packages("Rcmdr", dependencies = TRUE) :
 installation of package 'aplpack' had non-zero exit status
3: In install.packages("Rcmdr", dependencies = TRUE) :
 installation of package 'relimp' had non-zero exit status
4: In install.packages("Rcmdr", dependencies = TRUE) :
 installation of package 'rgl' had non-zero exit status
5: In install.packages("Rcmdr", dependencies = TRUE) :
 installation of package 'RODBC' had non-zero exit status
6: In install.packages("Rcmdr", dependencies = TRUE) :
 installation of package 'Rcmdr' had non-zero exit status

The packages aplpack, relimp, rgl, RODBC, are all dependencies that
somehow are not compiling and being stored in the library directory.

Also, references to /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1, : undefined symbol:
FT_Select_Size. No idea what this is or how to fix it. But it is the
reason that R_X11.so is not being loaded. There's obviously something
missing that I need to compile and install Rcmdr.

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Allan Engelhardt <allane at cybaea.com> wrote:
> There is a Fedora mailing list for R which might be better, but some
> suggestions:
>
> On 30/06/10 20:18, Carlo Tambuatco wrote:
>>
>> I did a standard install of R on Fedora 13 using yum as root, which I
>> assumed installed both the base packages and the devel packages needed
>>
>
> If you want the developer packages, install them especially R-devel which
> should pull in most of the tools you need
>
> you install R-devel
>
>> [...]
>>
>> install.packages("Rcmdr", dependencies=TRUE) as root, within R
>>
>
> Please don't do that (run as root, it is).  R will happily install in you
> own area, and I set
>
> export R_LIBS=$HOME/R
>
> in my ~/.bash_profile and install everything there.
>
>
>> [...]
>>  error: unable to load shared library '/usr/lib/R/library/tcltk/libs/
>> tcltk.so':
>>
>
> Do you have tcl installed?
>
> yum install tcl tcl-devel
>
>
>>  /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Select_Size
>>
>
> You also need
>
> yum install fontconfig-devel
>
>
> Hope this gets you a little further
>
> Allan
>